What This Site Is For
UK Planning Guide is built to help homeowners, small developers and property researchers understand the planning checks that usually matter before a project moves into drawings, applications or construction.
What Usually Works Best, What This Site Adds, What It Does Not Replace
What usually works best
Start with the project or planning topic you actually care about, then move into the local authority layer if the answer looks less certain.
What this site adds
It shortens the route to the real planning question and makes the next useful step clearer.
What it does not replace
It does not replace the local planning authority, formal confirmation, site-specific professional advice or legal advice.
How People Use The Site
Start With Your Project
Use the project hubs to find the core rules for extensions, loft conversions, outbuildings, driveways, dropped kerbs and other common home changes.
Add The Local Layer
Move into county and council pages when local designations, policy wording or council context may change the national baseline.
Use Tools And FAQ For Triage
Use the tools for a fast steer and the FAQ library for process questions, then verify anything close to a threshold with official sources.
What The Site Does Not Try To Fake
- No fake expertise, invented case studies or made-up authority.
- No promise that one generic rule answers every site-specific planning question.
- No attempt to replace formal council confirmation where the scheme is borderline.
Best Next Pages
Planning Tools
Use the tools to get a quick planning steer before you read deeper guidance.
Open toolsPlanning FAQ
Browse clear answers to planning process, restriction and verification questions.
Browse FAQLocal Authorities
Browse councils when the local planning authority is the main source of uncertainty.
Browse councilsMethodology
See how the site builds guidance and what still needs to be verified before you rely on an answer.
Read methodology